Digital Hospital

We are proud to be one of 16 UK acute
trusts to become a 'digital exemplar', leading the way in using
technology to benefit our patients and improve our working
practices.

Running for three-and-a-half years from September 2017, there
will be 20 major projects and many smaller ones all designed to
bring improvements for our patients and staff.

We've rolled out the following systems:

Vitals is our digital patient observation system, allowing
nurses to record patient observations in real-time on a portable
device. This means you may see our nurses and doctors using
portable devices near your bed, so please don't be alarmed as they
aren't being rude. Feel free to ask staff what they are
recording.

An electronic prescribing system is available on some of our
wards. This system is improving efficiency by reducing
duplication and ensuring information is available to clinicians and
pharmacists across the Trust as soon as medications are prescribed
on the ward.

CareFlow Connect is a secure messaging, task allocation,
alerting and handover system, enabling our doctors and nurses to
share data, have discussions about a patient's care remotely and
assign and track tasks, that otherwise may have relied upon phone
calls and pager messages.

As we roll out these systems, you may start seeing them on wards
and departments that you visit.

We're also working on other systems that in the future will
allow our patients to have more convenient access to their own
appointment information online

In the future patients will have the option to be able to check
their own health records, feedback information about their health
or perhaps have consultations via a mobile device to reduce
unnecessary or untimely hospital attendances.

It's an exciting time as we progress our digital journey. This
page will be updated over time with more information about the
systems.